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In an effort to expand our outreach to the masses who are searching for and needing Messianic instruction, we are now offering online Bible studies, delivered by TNN Online editor J.K. McKee. Every Wednesday a new teaching which deals with pertinent topics for today’s Messianic Believers will be presented. For the most part, these studies will be focusing on specific books of the Bible, but may from time to time deal with critical subjects as well.

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Starting 04 November 2009:
Acts 15 Bible Study

There is some shifting going on in today’s Messianic world as it concerns the unity that Jewish and non-Jewish Believers are to experience in Messiah Yeshua, and whether or not non-Jewish Believers are really called to obey God’s Torah. Much of this controversy is not based in an objective, historically conscious reading of the Scriptures—but instead in shifting ministerial alliances and religious politicking. The answer is not going to be found in evaluating who-said-what, but will be found in going to the Biblical text and in accurately evaluating what the trajectory of God’s Word is.

Around two decades after the ascension of Yeshua into Heaven, the message of salvation began being spread to the Mediterranean world outside the Land of Israel, and many from the nations eagerly embraced it. Was this just a bi-product of the message going to the Jewish people in the Diaspora, or was it the Father’s Divine plan? What was to take place with the new, non-Jewish Believers? Did they have to be circumcised and become Jewish proselytes? Or were all of the Believers, regardless of their ethnicity, to come together in a new environment rooted in the completed work of God’s Son? The Jerusalem Council of Acts 15 assembled to consider these issues, and fairly ruled on what was to be done.

Too many of today’s Messianics refer to Acts 15 without a great deal of consideration for the context of the events as they took place in the First Century C.E. We often assume things that we should not assume, and we overlook things that we should not be overlooking. This study will critically examine Acts 15 in detail, be engaged with current Acts scholarship, and will also try to properly compare and contrast the ancient setting of the Jerusalem Council with some of what we see going on in the emerging Messianic movement today and how we can learn from these things.


JANUARY 2010


Dear Friends:

Well folks, it is finally the year 2010 and the new decade. What is in store for this decade: many positive changes to our Messianic faith community. I believe it will be the time that we truly do put the issues of the past behind us, and enter into our own as a force of holiness and righteousness. I love how The Message renders Hebrews 12:1, which captures what we have in store: "we'd better get on with it...start running--and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins." Indeed, it is high time that we all "get on with it" and begin moving ahead!

Getting on with what needs to be accomplished is not going to happen within a few short months. We all have to learn to think differently, and recognize that methods of reasoning and communication that failed in the 2000s need not continue with us into the 2010s. Cutting corners with our Biblical Studies, doing what is minimally required, and tailoring our words for what is popular and not what is right--are all things that need to be left in the previous decade. Instead, they need to be replaced with thorough research, a commitment to do sound work, and tempering difficult things to be said with some empathy and patience.

Don't worry, that does not mean we cannot take a vacation now and then. The last week of the month I went to Universal Studios here in Orlando!

In 2009 I actually saw my list of items to be completed shorten up, but only for a moment. The main project on my list for the next few years will be seeing all our publications printed in paperback, and as we work through current publications--ideas for new publications are stirred! We have about five or six books that need to be readied on our immediate agenda, which are planned for the first half of this year. One of the main staples of TNN Press has been the book The New Testament Validates Torah. As it is among those being readied, it is going to see some major expansions, directly benefiting from the studies conducted in our weekly Wednesday Night program. This month's lead article, a paper which I promised you last year, gives a small preview as to the kind of additions this publication will have. I have written on one of the most quoted verses of the Bible by today's Messianic Believers, Matthew 5:17-19, in "Has the Law Been Fulfilled?" I think you will learn a great deal, especially as I engage directly with a variety of commentators and theologians.

This month, our Bible study on Acts 15 and the Jerusalem Council will conclude. I know this has been very useful for those of you who have been hearing various things about the Torah, Jewish and non-Jewish Believers, and a few of the controversies going on in the Messianic world. Indeed, my own knowledge of the Jerusalem Conference and Apostolic decree have been refined, and focused for what we need to be considering over the next ten years. More than anything else, much of what we have seen recently is the direct result of how there has been a strong lack of expressing value for our shared Jewish and Christian spiritual and theological heritage. There has been almost no Messianic teaching on making someone else's needs more important than your own (Philippians 2:3-4). It is my hope and prayer that TNN Online and Outreach Israel Ministries can make a more concentrated impact in these areas, as the Messianic movement we serve matures toward adulthood!

Until next month...

J.K. McKee


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A Place Where Everyone Can Belong 01.18.2010
The Need for Mutual Submission 01.07.2010

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